Aldo_MX

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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
I don't find the QA part that terrible, freeloaders are the kind of users that would pirate Windows, so rather than being a nuisance they're volunteering themselves to test the OS. Although it would had been better if they kept th
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An EULA is displayed the first time you turn your PC on (or during the Windows setup), if you had read it you would probably know what are you paying for. Anyway, I suggest you to read the Open Source licenses before hating on Windows about
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
So... you're also going to hate Linux since they left Dirty Cow unpatched for 9 years? Get real, perfect and secure code doesn't exist.
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I tried the demo here, and middle click or ctrl+click is not working, quite the contrary, it is treated like a regular click :/ https://nextgram.now.sh/
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Why should you? I mean, it is really handy to have a tool to save you from the initial setup and all that boilerplate code when you already know how it works . But not knowing how the different pieces fit together will bite you when things
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Span<T> is a new type we are adding to the (.NET) platform to represent contiguous regions of arbitrary memory, with perfromance characteristics on pair with T[]. Its APIs are similar to the array, but unlike arrays, it can
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Yes, an order of magnitude, in PHP we're talking about _minutes_ in Rust we're talking about _hours_ or even _days_ for a beginner programmer, ever tried to install Homebrew in a Mac to name an example? It adds at least a few hour
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Take the attacks with a grain of salt, although many of the criticism is true, it is not exclusive to PHP, ex. the unexpected type coercions. OTOH, most of the performance benchmarks done against PHP (ex. PHP vs Python) usually mean "w
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> I suspect you can with some effort That is my point. You require effort in an order of magnitude greater than with PHP in order to achieve the same result, which in the case of a beginner, is the difference between continuing their jou
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> we should definitely stop using them That will never happen, you can't write code like this in Rust: <!-- Snippet taken from an example of tightly-coupled and unmaintainable code in the Clean Architecture in PHP book[1] --&
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Which of the top languages is actually well designed? All of them have their area of opportunity.
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RethinkDB: a Qualitative Review (2014)(blog.carbonfive.com)
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> I really enjoy how the author broke down both the problem and the solution, explaining why the existing solutions are inadequate. A thousand times this, I always get frustrated that every single product, tool or service has to have a l
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This is a document to increase awareness about accessibility and provide guidelines, yet the landing page fails to convey the intention of the document. Accessibility is about lowering barriers to people and making things actually easier, n
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Sometimes you just need to do something the old way: let element = document.getElementById('some-element'); while (element) { // do something element = element.parentElement; } let doesn't get in
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> When I read "GitHub Audio", I figured it was a new service by GitHub for musicians to version control their music. Same here, I was ready to let my mind explode with the implementation details.
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Why shouldn't it? You still need to transpile ES6 to ES5
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To be fair, a side effect of JS Fatigue is the inability to tell whether "Plain JavaScript" is the newest kid on the block or if it really means "good old JavaScript (ES3)". Especially when the headline is "JavaScri
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Why is people always concerned about lowering the barrier to entry just because they felt dismotivated by it? Reviewer's time is a commodity, especially in a project like the kernel, accepting new patches is not a process that scales w
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Ok, this is really interesting, the Yuan (CNY) has officially become one of the 5 mayor reserve currencies (USD, EUR, CNY, JPY & GBP), since the IMF added it to the SDR basket today. The following month will be the American elections an
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At this point I would even pay to transfer everything from my apps account to my good old gmail account :/
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I'm not sure that educating readers would be that difficult if you cater to a well-cultured audience, personally I like the approach of Smashing Magazine when you use an ad blocker: http://i.imgur.com/YpuvdlX.png If I
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
I would rather read the article first, and leave a tip if the article was noteworthy.
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Is Java FX a thing? I just remember seeing it advertised after the Ask toolbar during a Java Runtime install.
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He didn't pick up a pre-alpha nightly build of the framework, he used the release candidate for christ's sake Quoted for emphasis. Release Candidate means "The API is considered finished and we are stabilizing the cod
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Or decides to turn off themselves[1] [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_Shutdown_Guideline...
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
You can't, it is impossible to build a decentralized and distributed database which prevents access to bad actors.
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by Aldo_MX 10y ago
Why not treat anonymity as opt-in? Not everyone is paranoid about government espionage, data mining, etc, but if you are, then you'll have to deal with the additional baggage that anonymity brings to the table.
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But it still leaves you puzzled, why on earth would you load a texture from 0x0???
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9617710

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